Posted on 04/16/2013 1:12:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Calling the latest operating system a “failure” and Microsoft’s leaders “idiots,” a top tech website has proclaimed the PC era over. Windows is coming to a dead end, they say.
PC shipments collapsed in the last quarter by almost 14 percent, analysts with IDC said last week, marking the biggest drop in sales since the firm started tracking them 19 years ago. The problem, said ZDNet’s well respected Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols, isn’t the designs from the likes of HP and Dell or the size of consumer’s wallets. It’s Microsoft.
“Look at the numbers: Metro-interface operating systems have already failed,” Vaughn-Nichols wrote in an essay on the site. “Microsoft is betting all its chips on the silly notion that Metro will be the one true interface for its entire PC and device line.”
“Idiots,” he wrote. …
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Are all your updates current or just “critical”? There’s often a surprising number of very useful updates MS doesn’t decide are critical. Could also be fat fingers, there’s a keyboard combo to bring that thing up (I forgot what it is) which you could be stumbling on.
I use windows xp. Thus I prefer 1 over 2. But either works and is not “dead”. Its a matter of preferences and choices. Apple works great too but is too pricey for my tastes. Whatever floats your boat. :-)
I am fairly sure all updates are current. I use the touch pad and it happens then.
Might want to manually run windows update just to see what’s on the list. That should show the history too, might be that update failed and you can reapply it. Also look in hardware updates, which never flag as critical, might be something going wrong with the touchpad driver. Actually you might want to hit the site of the company that made it, they might have an update to the touchpad driver that MS isn’t even pushing. They might even be providing you with a “convenient” gesture that you’re accidentally replicating, check any kind of configuration software it has.
Computers are a grossly over complicated world sometimes. Especially for the first year or 2 of a new OS.
I guess I failed to get the message on the demise of the desktop PC as we just purchased two HP 23” Touch Smart PCs in January. They replaced one 8 year old and one 6 year old Dell, both running XP.
It simply was time to replace those workhorses. For home use, we wanted large screens with a mouse and keyboard and a touch screen. We have found that Windows 8 is just fine. Plus, it is designed for touch screen use. Anyone purchasing a desktop or laptop today who does not purchase a unit with a touch screen is not being a smart shopper. Those of you who do not want to change with the times when it comes to technology will soon regret it. I am 70 years old. Yet I still realize that I cannot live in the past.
Just as “Big Iron” mainframes will never completely go away, neither will PCs.
Exactly (although I don’t own a tablet yet, I do have and Android phone). PC are pretty tapped out in terms of power versus end-user usability(IHMO). What I mean is, my base machine is a kick-butt core i5, overclocked with a boss graphics card and SSD drive for the OS. Even with all of that, the hard disk became the limiting factor some time ago. You just can’t push data any faster.
Until someone comes up with a new computing evolution NOT based on the Mealy-Moore machine, then we have about hit our limits.
If I HAD to use a new desktop right now, it would either get Windows 7 installed, or Linux. There’s no good reason to run Win 8, IMO.
That is strange.
I did have a zoom problem but that had to do with the touch pad in the lap top, not windows 8.
Now Windows 8 requires a touch screen which is nonsense for a PC.
I recently got a rather large LCD screen for my PC so that it would be a decent replacement for a TV. I can watch Netflix movies on it and it's great. I certainly don't want to have some screen that is littered with fingerprints.
What’s “Metro?” It sounds a lot like “Vista.”
YOu have to understand the source of the negative comments.
Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols of ZDNET, is rabidly anti-Windows and anti-Microsoft, and will take any opportunity to attack all things Microsoft. He’s been attacking windows and Microsoft way before Windows 8 was even a concept, and he is a big proponent of anything to do with Linux. He’s biggest dream is to see not just Windows disappear, but the whole of Microsoft. He can’t stand that Microsoft is still so relevant and so big. To him Windows 8 was a failure before it was even release to market, and the post-PC world was a reality once tablets and smartphones started selling, and that was some 5-7 years ago.
SJVN is to Windows what Ahmadinejad is to the U.S.
We have windows 8 on ne computer and windows 7 on the other one. I know how to useboth , but i hate using the windows 8 one. My daughters and my husband feel the same way.
Hubby and I are both software engineers.
Believe it or not, I rolled one back this afternoon to WINXP - it's still pulling updates and patches because I used an original retail disc to install it clean. I'm no Windows fan, I'm a Linux user at heart, but am forced to use Windows at the office by the need to access government acquisition systems - must use windows.
The doom and gloom crowd has failed to realize that Windows owns office environments - even in the cloud, at this point. It is a long way from being over for MS.
We LOVE our iPad and iPhones. Never have any problems with 'em. I love products that simply work the way they're supposed to...
Well that’s great. I prefer to have simplicity, and useful information with the ability to merely just type what I want rather than tiny yellow folders/icons, small text, and seeing where all the ReadMe.txt and Unwise.exe are. Where if I mis-click all 6 layers vanishes waiting for me to waste time digging through them again.
But then again, I appreciate efficiency and not using my PC like it is some sort of soul-sucking contraption stuck looking like something from Clinton’s first term.
I also don’t have a tape deck in my car for the same reason.
I was the same way - try installing 'classic shell' (it's freeware, and clean), it makes it all make sense again and you can begin to appreciate what 8 has to offer.
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